Jaelyn's 101 Blog

          College students often struggle to keep up with their schoolwork while also keeping up with life. Life comes quick and when college is involved it multiplies. School in itself is a personal job, you have to manage your time, grades and life all at once. School is more advanced and challenging than what it used to be. Many people who push to achieve an education but also have day-to-day life problems struggle. Colleges often try to be more flexible for their students and also teachers so that everyone can prosper. Most students have a job and also have to balance school and work life. This often causes stress and once we are stressed all hell breaks loose. Your hair isn’t done, you look like a bum you got 6 assignments due tomorrow and you got to work til’ 12 pm tonight. That is what you call quitting time. (lol,JK) College is the first real taste of independence for a lot of people. This means that many of the decisions that were once made for y...

                Best Friend I love you. You make me smile when times are hard. You push me to be the best version of me. You make me whole and without you this world would be way harder to manage. You are my personal safe, where I keep all my secrets dreams and desires. For when I forget these things you will be my medicine that will help me to remember. I never saw you coming my way but boy am I glad you came. you are proof that I made a difference to someone. You are one more reason for me to live. You are the slow breaths I take to stay sane. You are my light in dark places. My shoulder to cry on when my mom’s isn't available. Best Friend you are the light house to my ocean, the strings to my shoes and the gel to my edges. You are my inner thoughts and you know the vibes. Best friend you know me because in another world, you are me and I am you.

I hate to say that I haven't been able to experience any grand kind gestures from man kind, but only from God. The nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me is pay for my things at the gas station or maybe give me the remaining 20 cents from my purchase. I know i should be writing about the kindness that people give to people they don't know. The only kindness that i have received is from people who love me and me them. Kindness is more hard to find today especially from a pure place. Kindness could be anything, telling a person that they are beautiful, you like their outfit or anything. You never know what kind of impression you make o people that is why you should be kind to all. We never know what a person is going through and the smallest of encouraging words could help.When i am having a bad day , the smallest of words/phrases always puts me in a better mood. It's the small things. God has been kind to me in times where I wasn't worthy and undeserving. He gave h...

 Erykah Badu is a well known soul/R&B singer. She is a very spiritual lady that walks around with in-scents on a day to day basis. She is highly spiritual and highly talented also. She has 3 kids, one boy and two girls. Her birth name is Erica Abi Wright and she is forty-eight years of age. She sweats calmness and breathes out positive vibes. “I cannot help being spiritual. Music is a spirit. The ancestors live in the drum. The air is a spirit. Everything that I do is spiritual. I live for being spiritual as it is my way of connecting with people. Every time I am singing and playing a song, I am at my most spiritual." quoted by Badu herself. She inspires me because I wish to become that spiritual and confident in myself. She exudes good/positive energy and share that same energy with the people around her. She is a wonderful person and I know that one day our paths will cross and intwine.

My peers were all equally uninformed on my topic of colorism. They were honestly surprised by some of the facts that supported my thesis. They all agreed that I had an adequate amount of supporting details as well as variety in my sources. Some mentioned that a few of my quotes and supporting details may be too long to cite. I didn’t cite the Webster dictionary correctly. I also was told that one of my sentences had some repetition, so we worked to fix that. The peer revision process is always helpful to me because I need someone with a different perspective to read it. I can then know if it flows and if my information makes sense and supports my thesis statement. I may also sometimes misspell words or even leave words out and other people will be able to spot it while I may be not.